Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photograph of soldiers entering a store during the Newark Riots
July 1967
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white photograph depicting a group of three soliders standing in a store entryway during the Newark riots. The soldiers' backs are to the viewer, and one soldier's gun is raised. A young man dressed in a white shirt and trousers is standing outside the store, and in the foreground a boy is sitting on a tire on the sidewalk, both observing the scene.
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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture — original record ↗
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Catalog reference: 2011.57.10.10
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